Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-230) and index.
Contents:
Institutional change and the challenge of the underclass / William Julius Wilson. Urban industrial transition and the underclass / John D. Kasarda -- Absent fathers in the inner city / Mercer L. Sullivan -- Sex codes and family life among poor inner-city youths / Elijah Anderson -- Employment and marriage among inner-city fathers / Mark Testa, Nan Marie Astone, Marilyn Krogh, and Kathryn M. Neckerman -- Single mothers, the underclass, and social policy / Sara McLanahan and Irwin Garfinkel -- Puerto Ricans and the underclass debate / Marta Tienda -- Immigration and the underclass / Robert D. Reischauer -- The urban homeless: a portrait of urban dislocation / Peter H. Rossi and James D. Wright -- Equal opportunity and the estranged poor / Jennifer L. Hochschild -- The logic of workfare: the underclass and work policy / Lawrence M. Mead -- Institutional change and the challenge of the underclass / Richard P. Nathan -- The underclass : issues, perspectives, and public policy / William Julius Wilson.
Series:
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ; v. 501
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